In similar sense, the tiny microcontrollers inside our devices have protection units (PU) that safeguard the precious resource: memory. One of the most important types of protection units is the ...

In previous articles, we gave an overview about secure SoC architectures (Part I) , about the importance of key management (Part II) and secure boot (Part III) - the first line of defense. Part IV of ...

Memory protection helps ensure that trusted firmware and secure applications have their own memory area and hardware resources. Together, these hardware and software elements constitute the TEE.

uC/OS-MMU offers memory protection for central processing units (CPUs) that incorporate a memory management unit (MMU) giving them time and space protection for multiple independent applications.

These security objectives resulted in the creation and verification of three security rules. Two are based on threat models related to secure debug and one verifies the absence of software errors ...

The nRF51 Series SoCs is a family of low power Bluetooth chips from Nordic Semiconductor that is based on ARM Cortex cores. The nRF51822 has the Cortex M0 core and is used in a lot of products. [Lo… ...

The protection-domain memory model allows code and data resources to be encapsulated in a protected environment.

How to Impress Girls with Browser Memory Protection Bypasses, authored by security researchers Mark Dowd at IBM and Alexander Sotirov at VMware, presented a number of attacks against Vista's ...

“Memory safety has been a problem for nearly 40 years and numerous solutions have been proposed, according to Columbia computer scientist Simha Sethumadhavan. “We believe that memory safety continues ...

2021 OCP Summit presentations introduced Software Defined Memory and showcased developments in in and near memory computing, high performance object storage, CXL and computational storage.